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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Terry Wayne Carpenter.

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TERRY WAYNE CARPENTER

Private First Class · U.S. Army

May 14, 1947 – May 17, 1966

Service record

Terry Wayne Carpenter, of Germantown, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 17, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 7E, Line 68 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 7E · Line 68

Position of Panel 7E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
May 14, 1947
Home of record
Germantown, Ohio (Multiple County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 17, 1966
Age
19
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

62 names on the Wall carry the date May 17, 1966. In May 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 125 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 7E, Line 68

Same unit, same day

From Germantown

Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.